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 JAMESI call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
More Henry James Quotes
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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