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Henry James Quote: “How can I retrace to-day the strange steps of my obsession?”
Henry James Quote: “Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one’s self to an idea.”
Henry James Quote: “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.”
Henry James Quote: “I have lived too long in foreign parts.”
Henry James Quote: “He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.”
Henry James Quote: “Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.”
Henry James Quote: “When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.”
Henry James Quote: “He was burdened, poor Strether – it had better be confessed at the outset – with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal and curiosity in his indifference.”
Henry James Quote: “Keep making the movements of life.”
Henry James Quote: “I think patriotism is like charity – it begins at home.”
Henry James Quote: “Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.”
Henry James Quote: “I was a screen – I was their protector. The more I saw, the less they would.”
Henry James Quote: “Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.”
Henry James Quote: “He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.”
Henry James Quote: “The “germ,” wherever gathered, has ever been for me, “the germ of a story,” and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.”
Henry James Quote: “It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.”
Henry James Quote: “His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.”
Henry James Quote: “She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!”
Henry James Quote: “And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.”
Henry James Quote: “He was there or was not there: not there if I didn’t see him.”
Henry James Quote: “Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.”
Henry James Quote: “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.”
Henry James Quote: “Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.”
Henry James Quote: “A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”
Henry James Quote: “To gaze into the depths of blue of the child’s eyes and pronounce their loveliness a trick of premature cunning was to be guilty of a cynicism in preference to which I naturally preferred to abjure my judgment and, so far as might be, my agitation.”
Henry James Quote: “The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.”
Henry James Quote: “In such hours as this what have we to do with pain? That is not the deepest thing; there is something deeper.”
Henry James Quote: “I might show it to you, but you’d never see it. The privilege isn’t given to every one; it’s not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it.”
Henry James Quote: “The fatal futility of Fact.”
Henry James Quote: “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 Quote: “Life is a predicament which precedes death.”
Henry James Quote: “We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.”
Henry James Quote: “Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.”
Henry James Quote: “Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.”
Henry James Quote: “Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic; it was supposed to engender difficult questions and to keep the conversation at a low temperature.”
Henry James Quote: “New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.”
Henry James Quote: “Life is all a green old English garden and time an endless summer afternoon.”
Henry James Quote: “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 Quote: “The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.”
Henry James Quote: “If you look for grand examples of anything from me, I shall disappoint you.”
Henry James Quote: “I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.”
Henry James Quote: “I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.”
Henry James Quote: “Of course I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was.”
Henry James Quote: “London is on the whole the most possible form of life.”
Henry James Quote: “If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.”
Henry James Quote: “I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.”
Henry James Quote: “Let us be vulgar and have some fun, let us invite the President.”
Henry James Quote: “His serenity was but the array of wild flowers niched in his ruin.”
Henry James Quote: “London doesn’t love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.”
Henry James Quote: “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
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