Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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