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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Always keep a window in the attic open not just cracked: open.
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London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there.
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Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
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Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
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All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
Henry James
