Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESHowever British you may be, I am more British still.
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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