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 JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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