Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
More Henry James Quotes
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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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’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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