The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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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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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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