Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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 try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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