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 JAMESThree things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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