We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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