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.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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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 had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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