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.
HENRY JAMESTo 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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