When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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