Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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