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HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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