Things are always different from what they might be.
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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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