I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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