Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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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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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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