I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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