He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESI don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
More Henry James Quotes
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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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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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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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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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 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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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