In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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 believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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