I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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