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.
HENRY JAMESYoung 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.
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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I 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.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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