And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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To 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.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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