It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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