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.
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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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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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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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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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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