The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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