In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like 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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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