Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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