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 JAMESEvery good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
More Henry James Quotes
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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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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