She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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 unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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