Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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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