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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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do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
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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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Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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!
Henry James
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it set to work and you will feel like it.
Henry James
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
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You think too much.' 'I suppose I do but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches--a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.
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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
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
Henry James
You must save what you can of your life you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.
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.
Henry James
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Henry James
There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
Henry James
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
