I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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