If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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