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.
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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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