Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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