…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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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.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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