When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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