Henry James Quotes on Identity
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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.
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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 undervalue them.
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My choice is the old world - my choice, my need, my life.
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The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his - attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.
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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
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So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!