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.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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