Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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