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 JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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