When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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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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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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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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