…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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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.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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