There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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