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Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

Henry James
Character, Rose, Trying
Henry James (2016). “Henry James: The Complete Novels [The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, etc.] (Book House)”, p.988, Book House

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

Henry James
Character, Ideas, Two
Henry James (1930). “Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, 1869-1909”

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

Henry James
Inspirational, Determination, Character
"The Art of Fiction" (1884)

She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.

Henry James
Character, Mean, Giving
Henry James (2016). “Portrait of a Lady”, p.31, 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.

Henry James
Character, Reality, Color
Henry James (1979). “What Maisie Knew: In the Cage - The Pupil”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

Henry James
Character, Care, Take Care
Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2577, e-artnow

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

Henry James
Writing, Character, Novel
Partial Portraits (1888) "Art of Fiction"

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