She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
More Henry James Quotes
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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