Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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.
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