You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESSummer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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