The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMESLife is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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 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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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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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