She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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