The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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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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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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