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Henry James Quotes

Henry James quotes about love

American Writer April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916

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It has made me better loving you... it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them. Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better. It’s just as when one has been trying to spell out a book in the twilight, and... Henry James
I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of anything sad; only to feel that I'm near you and I love you. Why should there be pain? In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That's not the deepest thing; there's something deeper. Henry James
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel. Henry James
Henry James quote: "Love has nothing to do with good reasons."
Love has nothing to do with good reasons. Henry James
Henry James quote: "Her memory's your love. You want no other."
Her memory's your love. You want no other. Henry James
He asked himself whether it could be that he was in love with her, and then hoped he was not; hoped it not so much for his own sake as for that of the amatory passion itself. If this was love, love had been overrated. Henry James
[T]his expressed only a little of what she felt. The rest was that she had never been loved before. She had believed it, but this was different; this was the hot wind of the desert, at the approach of which the others dropped dead, like mere sweet airs of the garden. It wrapped her about; it lifted her off her feet, while the very taste of it, as of something potent, acrid and strange, forced open her set teeth. Henry James
Henry James quote: "If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."
If one is strong, one loves the more strongly. Henry James
Not to give away the woman one loved, but to back her up in her mistakes -- once they had gone a certain length -- that was perhaps chief among the inevitabilities of the abjection of love. Henry James
Henry James quote: "the passion of love separated its victim terribly from..."
...the passion of love separated its victim terribly from everyone but the loved object. Henry James
Henry James quote: "And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been..."
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved. Henry James
Henry James quote: "If this was love, love had been overrated."
If this was love, love had been overrated. Henry James
Henry James quote: "I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in..."
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. Henry James

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