Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESLife 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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