All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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