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 JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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.
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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 I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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