The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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 were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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