I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Young 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.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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