It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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