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.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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