When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMESI’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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