She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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 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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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