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 JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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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