It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
More Henry James Quotes
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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