She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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