Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESThree 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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