Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
More Henry James Quotes
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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 is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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