Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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