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And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
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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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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
Henry James
The germ, wherever gathered, has ever been for me, the germ of a story, and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.
Henry James
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
Henry James
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
Henry James
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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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there.
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No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
Henry James
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
Henry James
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.
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You think too much.' 'I suppose I do but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
Henry James
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
Henry James
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Henry James
I always want to know the things one shouldn't do. So as to do them? asked her aunt. So as to choose. said Isabel
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