His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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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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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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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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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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