And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMES
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMES