She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESTrue happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
More Henry James Quotes
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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