If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESJudge everyone and everything for yourself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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 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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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