And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESWe work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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