Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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 out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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