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.
HENRY JAMESTrue 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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