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 JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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