It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“If she had troubles she must keep them to herself, and if life was difficult it would not make it easier to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain - it can't spoil you. It may pull you… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It has not been a successful life.' 'No -- it has only been a beautiful one.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation...” — Henry James Copy Share Image
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. — Henry James Copy Share Image
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual… — Henry James Copy Share Image
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“They are hopelessly vulgar. Whether or no being hopelessly vulgar is being 'bad' is a question for the metaphysicians. They are bad… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Under all his culture, his cleverness, his amenity, under his good-nature, his facility, his knowledge of life, his egotism lay hidden like… — Henry James Copy Share Image
No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long as… — Henry James Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Whatever life you lead you must put your soul in it--to make any sort of success in it; and from the moment… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
