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.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Instead 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.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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