Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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