…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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