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.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
More Henry James Quotes
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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