Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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