It 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.
HENRY JAMESGod’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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