We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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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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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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