All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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