There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
HENRY JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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