She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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