I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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