Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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