The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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