I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESI 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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