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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.

Henry James

Henry James (1843–1916), U.S. author. What Maisie Knew, preface (1897).

The Preface first appeared in the New York Edition of James's work (1907-1909) and was later republished in The Art of the Novel, ed. R.P. Blackmur (1934).

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