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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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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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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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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
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Art without life is a poor affair.
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I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
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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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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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It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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.
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