Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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