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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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