The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
HENRY JAMESYou must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
More Henry James Quotes
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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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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Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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