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 JAMESTo myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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