Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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