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.
HENRY JAMESHis beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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