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.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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