Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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