I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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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