Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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In art economy is always beauty.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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