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 JAMESYou wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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