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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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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My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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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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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there.
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Her memory's your love. You want no other.
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
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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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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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I have lived too long in foreign parts
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