Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMESGod’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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