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.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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