Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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