Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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