Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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