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.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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