Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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