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.
HENRY JAMESLife 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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