To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESI would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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