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 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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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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 take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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