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.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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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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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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