Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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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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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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