To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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 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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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