main page Britney Quotes Henry James On Instagram

[Ouch]

https://instagram.com/p/2sWcGHG8BJ/?taken-by=britneyspears

 

[Britnoy]

Mi no entender.
What's that "¿quote?" about???     

[FUDGE]

Omg party in France! She's going to perform Work Bitch at the BBMAs Yassss!

[Ouch]

i think it's about enjoying the small things in life 

[BritsBaby95]

i think it's about enjoying the small things in life 

i think so too  

[Dance]

Idk why is this so difficult for me to read  

[News]

Britney posted a picture quote by Henry James who wrote it originally in a letter to the New York Tribune 1875.

 

Read it on our mainsite!

[Daydream, Mariah's fantasy]

It might look beautiful but I don't get a single word of what it's written

[Caroline77]

That's a beautiful quote.

Although i bet the one who wrote that never lived in France lol.

[Lady Lisa]

It might look beautiful but I don't get a single word of what it's written

Make a wish Luis post something

[Daydream, Mariah's fantasy]

Make a wish Luis post something

I'm pretty active tho

[Lady Lisa]

I'm pretty active tho

Stop stalking me 

[Daydream, Mariah's fantasy]

Stop stalking me 

No

[Miss Dalloway]

I have read Henry James's works a couple of times but it's just because I major in Literature and I have to finish some paper. He is a really great novelist, has influence on many 20th century modernism writers such as Virginia Woolf(my avatar), James Joyce etc. He often writes about Americans encountering Europe and Europeans, showing the difference between Americans and Europeans, and because of some of his novels focusing on the characters' inner consciousness, so he is often considered a pioneer of the stream of consciousness novels. But his works are hard to understand, sometimes just confusing. I'm glad Britney likes him, at least some quotes from him lol.  

[Miss Dalloway]

The full quote is here

 

“The French have always flattered themselves that they have gone further in the art of living, in what they call l’entente de la vie, than any other people, and with certain restrictions the claim is just. So far as man lives in his senses and his tastes, he certainly lives as well here as he can imagine doing; and so far as he lives by the short run, as it were, rather than the long, he is equally well off…There is to be found here, in other words, a greater amount of current well-being than elsewhere.†Henry James, in a letter to the New York Tribune (1875)

[killthelights]

The full quote is here

“The French have always flattered themselves that they have gone further in the art of living, in what they call l’entente de la vie, than any other people, and with certain restrictions the claim is just. So far as man lives in his senses and his tastes, he certainly lives as well here as he can imagine doing; and so far as he lives by the short run, as it were, rather than the long, he is equally well off…There is to be found here, in other words, a greater amount of current well-being than elsewhere.†Henry James, in a letter to the New York Tribune (1875)

I need this translated haha

[Miss Dalloway]

I need this translated haha

Lol yeah he is somewhat "notorious" for his long sentences which are very hard to understand. I'm not a native English speaker so maybe I'm wrong, but I think what he meant is that some people prefer live the life they want and enjoy the moment, the happiness can be found in "here", not "there" that is far away from you. And living by the short run is also an art of living, as good as by the long run.