I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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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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