Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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