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.
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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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