…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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 know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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