I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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