What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
More Henry James Quotes
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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