The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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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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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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