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.
HENRY JAMESI would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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