Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESUnder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
More Henry James Quotes
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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