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.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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