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 JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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