If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESThere’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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