I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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.
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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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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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