Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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