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.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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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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