In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESLife 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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