Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESIt is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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