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.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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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.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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