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.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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