Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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