One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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