He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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