The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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