If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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