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 JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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