We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
HENRY JAMES
If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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 believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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