I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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