Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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