Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
HENRY JAMESI don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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