The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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