We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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