I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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It 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.
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