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Henry James  Quotes
It has not been a successful life.”No — it has only been a beautiful one.

—Henry James

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BeautifulBeautyLife
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

—Henry James

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IntegritySelf-Esteem
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had?

—Henry James

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One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church…

—Henry James

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Travel-Writing
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Before he went away, he had heard all about the self-made girl, and there was something in the picture that strongly impressed him. She was possible doutbless only in America; American life had smoothed the...

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FictionLiteratureNovella
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I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong.

—Henry James

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BeginningIntuition
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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.

—Henry James

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OpinionWoman
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Some three or four years before this Dr. Sloper had moved his household gods up town, as they say in New York. He had been living ever since his marriage in an edifice of red...

—Henry James

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New-York-City
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Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity,...

—Henry James

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EvilHorrorStory
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The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive...

—Henry James

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Dasiy-MillerEmbarrassedIn-Love
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

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AmountTakes
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

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The historic atmosphere was there, certainly; but the historic atmosphere, scientifically considered, was no better than a villainous miasma

—Henry James

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History
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The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, from decade to decade, to be allowing, and in the most liberal and intelligent manner, for brilliancy of change....

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AgeDismayDispleasure
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

—Henry James

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MannersUnderstand
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Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders long hoods trimmed in white fur. Who and what they were I know...

—Henry James

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Travel-Writing
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Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

—Henry James

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ArtAuthorshipFiction
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Mr. Morris’s poem is ushered into the world with a very florid birthday speech from the pen of the author of the too famous Poems and Ballads,—a circumstance, we apprehend, in no small degree prejudicial...

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Algernon-Charles-SwinburneGeoffrey-ChaucerLiterary-Criticism
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.

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HoldingNaturalTongue
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Mrs. Almond lived much farther up town, in an embryonic street with a high number—a region where the extension of the city began to assume a theoretic air, where poplars grew beside the pavement (when...

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New-York-City
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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

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BooksKnowledgeReading
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Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.

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Inspirational-Life
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle...

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CompleteHuge
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Don’t question your conscience so much–it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.

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Conscience
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I don’t need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

—Henry James

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FeminismGenderInspirational
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It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test for him; since he had quite put it to himself from the first that, oh distinctly! he...

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Perception
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.

—Henry James

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AppreciateCriticizeFine
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I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.

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FeminismWomen
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

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Literature
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We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

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GenerosityNovelsTraining
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I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

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Adore
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One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn’t, simply from a sense that one had...

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ConversationSpeaking
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

—Henry James

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ArtEducationTheory
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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...

—Henry James

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Inspirational-Life
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Deep experience is never peaceful.

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DeepPeaceful
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My envy’s not dangerous; it wouldn’t hurt a mouse.

—Henry James

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Envy
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Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we’ll wake up to find our work done because we’ve lain all night a-dreaming...

—Henry James

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FantasyRealityWork-Ethic
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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

—Henry James

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ExpressionSarcasmSmile
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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...

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EarthFactValue
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It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just...

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EgoInspirationalPyschology
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It has made me better loving you… it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them....

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DesireLoveSatisfaction
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There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

—Henry James

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LiteratureRecognitionSurprise
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However, Nick acted as much as possible under the circumstances, and that was rectifying — it brought with it enjoyment and a working faith. He had not gone counter to the axiom that in a...

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MediocrityMuddling-ThroughProcrastination
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It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

—Henry James

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AgainstFateFighting
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

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Inspirational
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I might show it to you, but you’d never see it. The privilege isn’t given to every one; it’s not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You...

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KnowledgeSufferingWisdom
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

—Henry James

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CharacterIncident
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Night came on, the lamps were lighted, the tables near him found occupants, and Paris began to wear that peculiar evening look of hers which seems to say, in the flare of windows and theatre-doors,...

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Paris
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Do you know I love you ?- I’m sure I don’t care whether you do or not !

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FamilyHumorLove
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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; imbeciles to be...

—Henry James

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AdversityLifePerseverance
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