All intimacies are based on differences.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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