I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
More Henry James Quotes
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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