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.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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