The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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