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.
HENRY JAMESIt is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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 other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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