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.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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