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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 (Henry James Quotes)
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense (Henry James Quotes)
Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare (Henry James Quotes)
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither (Henry James Quotes)
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it (Henry James Quotes)
A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes (Henry James Quotes)
That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy (Henry James Quotes)
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer... No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind (Henry James Quotes)
Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out (Henry James Quotes)
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it (Henry James Quotes)
It doesn’t matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life (Henry James Quotes)
It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry (Henry James Quotes)
... the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one’s life here exactly as one pleases... there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood (Henry James Quotes)
She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity (Henry James Quotes)
I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected (Henry James Quotes)
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel (Henry James Quotes)
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I don’t know whether she is a gifted being, but she is a clever girl, with a strong will and a high temper. She has no idea of being bored... Very pretty indeed; but I don’t insist upon that. It’s her general air of being someone in particular that strikes me (Henry James Quotes)
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it (Henry James Quotes)
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had? (Henry James Quotes)
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea (Henry James Quotes)
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught (Henry James Quotes)
Don’t mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself (Henry James Quotes)
She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause (Henry James Quotes)
There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: The taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition (Henry James Quotes)
He is outside of everything, and an alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window (Henry James Quotes)
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so (Henry James Quotes)
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take (Henry James Quotes)
We stand like a race with shrunken muscles, staring helplessly at the weights our forefathers easily lifted (Henry James Quotes)
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does compete with life (Henry James Quotes)
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million... They are, singly or together, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher (Henry James Quotes)