His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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