Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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