And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESI think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
More Henry James Quotes
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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