The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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