Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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