There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMESThe visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
More Henry James Quotes
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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