Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
More Henry James Quotes
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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