And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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