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.
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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I 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.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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