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.
HENRY JAMESAnd remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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