Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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