I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I 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.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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