It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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