He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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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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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