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.
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 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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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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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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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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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