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 JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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