I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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