I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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