Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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 believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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