I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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