It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMESI’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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