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 JAMESThere 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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