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 JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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