To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESThe superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
More Henry James Quotes
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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