You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESThree 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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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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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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