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.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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