What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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