It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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