To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESTrue happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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 must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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