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 JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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