In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESAll intimacies are based on differences.
More Henry James Quotes
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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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