And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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