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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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She is written in a foreign tongue.
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There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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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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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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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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Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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