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.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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