Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESI mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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