You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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