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.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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