It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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