Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESI would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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