I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
More Henry James Quotes
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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