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 JAMESMoney’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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