Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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