Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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