Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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