He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
More Henry James Quotes
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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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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Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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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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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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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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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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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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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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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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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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