Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
More Henry James Quotes
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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