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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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