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.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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