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Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.
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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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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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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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She is written in a foreign tongue.
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England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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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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The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour.
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There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
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One is oneself a fine consequence.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
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Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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