Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Young 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.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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