What did Henry James mean by: And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved. Henry James Author · USA Copy
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Curiosity, Life., Wonder, 0 Henry James Author · USA
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Division, Familiarity, Nostalgia, 0 Henry James Author · USA
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, History, Time, Tradition, 0 Henry James Author · USA
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Artistic, Beauty, Force, 0 Henry James Author · USA
Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Challenge, Creativity, Perception, 0 Henry James Author · USA
+ She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS. Author, March 9, 2023December 25, 2024, Henry James, Communication, Emotion, Thought, 0 Henry James Author · USA
It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Contentment, Life, Perspective, 0 Henry James Author · USA
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henry James, Contradiction, Temptation, Wealth, 0 Henry James Author · USA
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. Read explanation Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris Designer · England
