Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESI hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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