The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESI have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
More Henry James Quotes
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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There 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.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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.
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