I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The 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.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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