Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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