Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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