To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESThree 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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