Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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 think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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