Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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