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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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