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It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed.
By Henry James
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 are in a conspiracy to under-value them.
By Henry James
I feel how little she can like being told of her owing me anything. No woman ever enjoys such an obligation to another woman.
By Henry James
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.
By Henry James
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 airborne particle in its tissue.
By Henry James
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
By Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
By Henry James
'There are certainly moments,' said Chad, 'when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true,' he added, 'that seems to be all that need concern me.'
By Henry James
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
By Henry James
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
By 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.
By Henry James