I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I 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.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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