All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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