He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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