The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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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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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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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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