Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESIt 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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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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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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