To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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