All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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