Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESSummer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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