Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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 criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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