He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
More Henry James Quotes
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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