You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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 this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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