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.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different from what they might be.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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