Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESImbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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