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Генри Джеймс цитаты
Из записных книжек 1879—1901.
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Overheard by his nephew, Billy James, in 1902; quoted in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol V: The Master 1901-1916 (1972).
“Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.”
Источник: Washington Square
“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”
Источник: The Portrait of a Lady
“I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.”
Источник: The Portrait of a Lady
“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”
Источник: The Portrait of a Lady
“If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.”
Источник: The Portrait of a Lady
"Nathaniel Hawthorne" in Library of the World's Best Literature, vol. XII (1897), ed. Charles Dudley Warner.
“Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”
Источник: The Portrait of a Lady
Quoted by Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934), ch. 10.
“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
Letter to Miss M. Betham Edwards (5 January 1912).
Источник: The Ambassadors (1903), book V, ch. II.
Контексте: Live all you can — it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?.. What one loses one loses; make no mistake about that... The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.. Live!
“And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.”
Источник: The Portrait of a Lady