I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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