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In art economy is always beauty.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Henricus James
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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.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
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To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her for her love of knowledge had a fertilizing quality and her imagination was strong. There was at this time, however, a want of lightness in her situation, which the arrival of an unexpected visitor did much to dispel.
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God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
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It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
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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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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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