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 JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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There 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.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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