I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Imbeciles 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.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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