It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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