She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
More Henry James Quotes
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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