A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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 you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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