I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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