Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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