Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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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 success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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