Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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