I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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