I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
HENRY JAMESWe 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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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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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Excellence does not require perfection.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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