Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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