It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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