Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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