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.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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