She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESDon’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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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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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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