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 JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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