She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESI hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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