She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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