If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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