The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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