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.
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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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