Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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