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 JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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