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 JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
More Henry James Quotes
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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