I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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 had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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