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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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