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 JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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