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.
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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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