Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Life 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.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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