To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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 don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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