She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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