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.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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