Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESI’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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