The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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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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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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