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 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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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