All intimacies are based on differences.
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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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