When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESIf this was love, love had been overrated.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It 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.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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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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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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