Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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