It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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