Henry James Quotes about Effort

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I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Henry James

Fashion, Effort, Lessons

Henry James, Leon Edel “Letters”, Harvard University Press

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. 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

Struggle, Effort, Needs

Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.179, University of Chicago Press