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.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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