Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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