If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESMake the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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