You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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