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 JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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