It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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