Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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