I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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