The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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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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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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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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His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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