Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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