If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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