Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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