I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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