Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESYoung men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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