I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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