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 JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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