What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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