Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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