We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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