All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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 would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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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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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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