The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
HENRY JAMESIt’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
More Henry James Quotes
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Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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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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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to 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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