I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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