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One is oneself a fine consequence.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Henricus James
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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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If you haven't had your life what have you had?
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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 only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
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If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
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We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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The germ, wherever gathered, has ever been for me, the germ of a story, and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.
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Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.
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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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