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 JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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