You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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