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 JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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