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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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  Inspiración, Vida, Tiempo

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.99, University of Chicago Press

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• To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

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  Children, Believe

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• No subestime el valor de la ironía: es extremadamente valiosa.

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  Irónico, Ironía, Subestimar

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• El arte no es más que la sombra de la humanidad.

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  Art, Philosophy, Inspirational Running

  Henry James (1852). “Lectures and miscellanies”, p.124

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• Los estadounidenses comerán basura siempre que la rocíes generosamente con ketchup.

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  Food, Cooking, Sprinkles

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• Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

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  Inspiración, Gente, Intento

  "El arte de la ficción" (1884)

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• Things are always different from what they might be.

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  Spiritual, Journey, Different

  Henry James (2016). “Portrait of a Lady”, p.169, Henry James

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• I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

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  Fashion, Effort, Lessons

  Henry James, Leon Edel “Letters”, Harvard University Press

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• One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

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  Defensa

  Henry James (2016). “The Aspern Papers: American Literature”, p.2, 谷月社

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• I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

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  Life, Way To Live, Half

  Henry James (1984). “Letters”, Belknap Press

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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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  Men, Moral, Manners

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• No hay base más habitual de unión que la incomprensión mutua.

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  Habituales, Sindicatos, Bases

  Henry James (2015). "Las novelas completas de Henry James: El retrato de una dama + Las alas de la paloma + Lo que Maisie sabía + El americano + El bostoniano + Los embajadores + Washington Square y más (Unabridged): Confianza + Roderick Hudson + La edad incómoda + Los europeos + El cuenco dorado + La otra casa + El clamor + La princesa Casamassima + El reverbero + La fuente sagrada....", p.2475, e-artnow

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• Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

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  Pulse, Details, Stories

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• To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.

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  Inspiración, Arte, Miedo

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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• I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

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  Gente, Dar, Interesante

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.261, e-artnow

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• The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

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  Art, Writing, Mind

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• Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

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  Art, Criticism, World

  Henry James, John L. Sweeney (1956). “The Painter's Eye: Notes and Essays on the Pictorial Arts”, p.10, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

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  Ideas, Stories, Very Good

  Henry James, William Veeder, Susan M. Griffin (1986). “The Art of Criticism: Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

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• En determinadas circunstancias, hay pocas horas en la vida más agradables que la dedicada a la ceremonia conocida como el té de la tarde.

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  Life, Tea Drinking, Coffee And Tea

  1881 The Portrait of a Lady, ch.1.

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• Hace falta mucha historia para producir un poco de literatura.

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  History, Historical, Literature

  Hawthorne ch. 1 (1879)

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• ¿Qué es el carácter sino la determinación del incidente? ¿Qué es el incidente sino la ilustración del carácter?

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  Inspirational, Determination, Character

  "El arte de la ficción" (1884)

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• ...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

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  Laughter, Long, Should

  Henry James (1994). “Henry James: selected works”, Random House Value Publishing

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• In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

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  Museums, Palaces, Radical

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: The Continent”, p.550, Library of America

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• I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

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  Thinking, Judging, Judgement

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• Es la misma salchicha de siempre, burbujeando y chisporroteando en su propia grasa.

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  Sarcastic, Grease, Sausage

  Henry James (2011). “Notes of a Son and Brother and The Middle Years: A Critical Edition”, p.162, University of Virginia Press

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