Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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