And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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