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.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Life 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.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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