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 JAMESYoung 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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