If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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