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.
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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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