He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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