The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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 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.
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