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One Quotes by Henry James
- The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one…
- One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at…
- ...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit…
- One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
- Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had…
- It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
- The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
- The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
- 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…
- People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You…
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it…
- The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its…
- 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
- If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
- A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.
- The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word…
- She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it…
- You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men.…
- One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
- True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay…
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