All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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