Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMESLove has nothing to do with good reasons.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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