Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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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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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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