Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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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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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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