Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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