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 JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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