If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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