Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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