To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMES
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.
More Henry James Quotes
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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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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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.
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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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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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