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.
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing 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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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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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