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.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
More Henry James Quotes
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Young 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.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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