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 JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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 patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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