One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESIf I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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