If this was love, love had been overrated.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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