It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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