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.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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