I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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