Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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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 is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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