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.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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