Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMESDeep experience is never peaceful.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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