The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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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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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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