In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESIt is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
More Henry James Quotes
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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