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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
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