I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMESLive all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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