If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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