Things are always different from what they might be.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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