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 JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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 visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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