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.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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