He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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