It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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