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.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
More Henry James Quotes
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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