It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
HENRY JAMESCriticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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