She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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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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