The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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