Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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