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 JAMESHer imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
More Henry James Quotes
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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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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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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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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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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