The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESThe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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