The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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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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