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.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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