When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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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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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.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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