If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMES
She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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