Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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