The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESAn Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
More Henry James Quotes
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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 you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To 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.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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