I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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