Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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