Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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 hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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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 success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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