Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESIt is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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