The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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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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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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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.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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