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.
HENRY JAMESThere 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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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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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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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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