Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
More Henry James Quotes
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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