Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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True 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.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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