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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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She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.
Henry James
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
Henry James
One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
Henry James
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
Henry James
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
Henry James
The germ, wherever gathered, has ever been for me, the germ of a story, and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.
Henry James
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
Henry James
If you haven't had your life what have you had?
Henry James
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
Henry James
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
Henry James
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
Henry James
She is written in a foreign tongue.
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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.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
Henry James
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
Henry James
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James
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
