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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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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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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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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.
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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .
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Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
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Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
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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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It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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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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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
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London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
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I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Henry James