Deep experience is never peaceful.
HENRY JAMESGod’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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