You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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.
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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 hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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