You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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 had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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