You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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