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.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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