You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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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 is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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