Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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