If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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