Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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