Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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