I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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