In art economy is always beauty.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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 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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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