I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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