There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESThere were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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