The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I 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.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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