If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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