You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESTrue 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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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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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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