To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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We 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.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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