It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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