God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
HENRY JAMESYoung men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
More Henry James Quotes
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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