It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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