All Henry James Quotes
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
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We work n 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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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
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It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.
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