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 JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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