I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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