The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESA man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
More Henry James Quotes
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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