There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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