You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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