I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMESThe artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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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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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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