To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
More Henry James Quotes
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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