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 JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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