To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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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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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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