And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESAdjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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