To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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