To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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