To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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