Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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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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