To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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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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