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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.

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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.
HENRY JAMES

Absorbing Consist Errand Get Happiness Lot One Out Point True
I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMES

Anything Care Know Like Reason
Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Better Course Every Good Idea Interfuse More Picture Story
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.
HENRY JAMES

Country Forever Forget Generally Great Illusion Mankind Narrow People Sense Small Stand Unhappy Wake
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.
HENRY JAMES

Between Desire Said Several Something Two Understanding Way
I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMES

Everyone Less Like Myself People Think Want
Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMES

Extremely Irony Underestimate Valuable Value
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.
HENRY JAMES

Criticism Force Good Importance Insist Nonsense Talk Useful
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.
HENRY JAMES

Application Art Beauty Consideration Important Interest Life Make Process Substitute Thing
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Charm Follow Horrid Meet Money Thing
if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Allow Better Desire Go Jump Push Wish
…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMES

Abundant Day Decide Embellishment Laughter Long Remainder
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMES

Afternoon Always Beautiful English Language Most Summer Word
If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMES

Emotion Feel Love Overrated Respect
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.
HENRY JAMES

Explore Feel Incapable Kill Live Say Tell Worth
His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMES

Autumn Beautiful Brush Dusky Evening Imagination Light Window Wing
I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMES

Always Expect Happen Know Worst
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMES

Help Humanity More Nothing Respect Shadow
Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMES

Do Hope Know Tou Until Try
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMES

Cat Human Lesson Life Money Understand
There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMES

Basis Misunderstanding More Mutual Solution Union Usual
You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMES

Art Certain Degree Enlargement Experience Illusion Live Make Measure Mind Miraculous Produce Succes Work
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
HENRY JAMES

Done Except Game Life Play Thing Win Wonder
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES

Believe Defend Devotion Feel God Himself One Trust
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMES

Bleed Butchery Corpse Necessary Perform
You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMES

Allow Life Ook Punish Want Wish Yourself

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