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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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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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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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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.
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Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.
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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.
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