When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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