It 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.
HENRY JAMESYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
More Henry James Quotes
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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’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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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