You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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