The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
More Henry James Quotes
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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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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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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