Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
More Henry James Quotes
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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