Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
HENRY JAMESShe feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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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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An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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