Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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