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.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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