It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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