All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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