Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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