Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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