Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
HENRY JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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