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.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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