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 JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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 I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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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