We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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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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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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