One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESWe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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