And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESThere were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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