It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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