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 JAMESLive as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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