To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
HENRY JAMESCats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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