True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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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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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 call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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