Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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