Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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