Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
More Henry James Quotes
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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