All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESIn art economy is always beauty.
More Henry James Quotes
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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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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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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