Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESNever say you know the last word about any human heart.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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