Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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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.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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