Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESHe is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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 art economy is always beauty.
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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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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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