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 JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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