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.
HENRY JAMESif you are going to be pushed you had better jump
More Henry James Quotes
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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