…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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 am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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