I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
More Henry James Quotes
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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 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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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