Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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