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 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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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