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.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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