Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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