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.
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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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