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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Henry James
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Henry James
Age: 73 †
Born: 1843
Born: January 1
Died: 1916
Died: January 1
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Always keep a window in the attic open not just cracked: open.
Henry James
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
Henry James
I intend to judge things for myself to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.
Henry James
do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
Henry James
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
Henry James
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it set to work and you will feel like it.
Henry James
If you haven't had your life what have you had?
Henry James
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
Henry James
Ideas are, in truth, force.
Henry James
One can't judge till one's forty before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry James
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .
Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
Henry James
There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.
Henry James
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.
Henry James
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
Henry James
Art does not lie in copying nature.- Nature furnishes the material by means of which is to express a beauty still unexpressed in nature.-The artist beholds in nature more than she herself is conscious of.
Henry James
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.
Henry James
