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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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.
Henry James
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
Henry James
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
Henry James
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
Henry James
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Henry James
The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
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Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.
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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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I always want to know the things one shouldn't do. So as to do them? asked her aunt. So as to choose. said Isabel
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One can't judge till one's forty before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry James
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
Henry James
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
Henry James
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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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.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'
Henry James
I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.
Henry James
