A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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