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 JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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To 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.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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