Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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