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Henry James Inspirational Quotes (141)

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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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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I have lived too long in foreign parts
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The germ, wherever gathered, has ever been for me, the germ of a story, and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
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Art without life is a poor affair.
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She is written in a foreign tongue.
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London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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Always keep a window in the attic open not just cracked: open.
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It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.
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And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
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