Henry James Quote

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.


Transatlantic Sketches (ed. 1875)


There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and...

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and...

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and...

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and...