It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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