And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESGod’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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 think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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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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