It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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