Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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