It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it…to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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