Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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