It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMESInstead 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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