I 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.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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