You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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