To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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