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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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It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
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Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
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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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Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
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I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
Henry James
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.
Henry James
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
Henry James
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 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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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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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
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
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I have lived too long in foreign parts
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.
Henry James
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
Henry James
