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.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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