And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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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.
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