Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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