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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
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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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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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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.
Henry James
She is written in a foreign tongue.
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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
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My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
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If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.
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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.
Henry James
Deep experience is never peaceful.
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