To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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 had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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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 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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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