And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESYoung men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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