Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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