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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMES

Careful Certainty Experience Feel Immediate Monition Novice Only People Rather Say Tantalize Write
Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMES

Close Detail Make Pulse Rhythm Selection Short Story Succinct Tremendous Very
I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMES

Again Effort Old Own Page Scare Struggle Take Unforgettable
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMES

Bleed Butchery Corpse Necessary Perform
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMES

Lucky Right Time
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
HENRY JAMES

Bad Karma Man Manner Moral Pretend Really Understand Women
In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMES

Always Art Beaty Economy
You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMES

Conventioanl Ground Mill
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.
HENRY JAMES

Age Agree Axcess Chilled Embrace Occasion Possibility Regret Responsive Single Think
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMES

Astaire Constant Curiosity Immense Life Wonder
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
HENRY JAMES

Explore Feel Incapable Kill Live Say Tell Worth
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMES

Aesthetic Alien Everything Everywhere Outside Solitary
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMES

Especially Gift Hand Mistake Opportunity Pen Small Squeeze Unqualified
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
HENRY JAMES

Active Door Habit Imagination Jump Open Ridiculous Window
All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMES

All Intimacy Based Difference Result Show
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.
HENRY JAMES

Advantage Below Down Exailation Happiness Instead Lead Light One Pity Place Seen Sense World
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.
HENRY JAMES

Future High Indeed Large Life May Work More Myself Need Open Say Success Today
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMES

Country Disagreeable Nothing People Person Some Thing Visitor
And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMES

Great Hope Know Remain Strong Stronger
And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMES

Been Emotion Feeling Hate Love Reminder
To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMES

Criticize Establish Fine Make One Own Relation
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
HENRY JAMES

Fizzle Grease Own Same Sausage Spulter
Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMES

Excellence Perfection Require
Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
HENRY JAMES

Extremely Irony Underestimate Valuable Value
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMES

Character Determination Fact Illustration Incident
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMES

All Experience Life Mistakes
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMES

Act Brain Clever Good Knowledge Nothing Unless

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