Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESIt takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
More Henry James Quotes
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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