To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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