When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESTo live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
More Henry James Quotes
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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.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to 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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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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