Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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