I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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