To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESSorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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