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.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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