Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
HENRY JAMESThree 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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