I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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.
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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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