We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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All intimacies are based on differences.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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