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Henry James Quote: “If this was love, love had been overrated.”
Henry James Quote: “The summer had turned, the summer had gone; the autumn had dropped upon Bly and had blown out half our lights. The place, with its gray sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theater after the performance – all strewn with crumpled playbills.”
Henry James Quote: “If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice, in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.”
Henry James Quote: “Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.”
Henry James Quote: “The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.”
Henry James Quote: “There was nothing in the room the next minute but the sunshine and a sense that I must stay.”
Henry James Quote: “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.”
Henry James Quote: “He was absolutely, on this occasion, a living, detestable, dangerous presence.”
Henry James Quote: “The flash of this knowledge – for it was knowledge in the midst of dread – produced in me the most extraordinary effect.”
Henry James Quote: “There are women who are for all your ‘times of life.’ They’re the most wonderful sort.”
Henry James Quote: “We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.”
Henry James Quote: “People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course – with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here – to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.”
Henry James Quote: “A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.”
Henry James Quote: “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
Henry James Quote: “You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue – to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud – a missile that should never have reached you – and down you drop to the ground.”
Henry James Quote: “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.”
Henry James Quote: “To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.”
Henry James Quote: “The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.”
Henry James Quote: “Europe was best described, to his mind, as an elaborate engine for dissociating the confined American from that indispensable knowledge, and was accordingly only rendered bearable by these occasional stations of relief, traps for the arrest of wandering western airs.”
Henry James Quote: “Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.”
Henry James Quote: “She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.”
Henry James Quote: “To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening’s traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.”
Henry James Quote: “She had her own way of doing all that she did, and this is the simplest description of a character which, although by no means without liberal motions, rarely succeeded in giving an impression of suavity.”
Henry James Quote: “Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.”
Henry James Quote: “I had not gone to bed; I sat reading by a couple of candles. There was a roomful of old books at Bly – last-century fiction, some of it, which, to the extent of a distinctly deprecated renown, but never to so much as that of a stray specimen, had reached the sequestered home and appealed to the unavowed curiosity of my youth.”
Henry James Quote: “I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.”
Henry James Quote: “What is character but the determination of incident?”
Henry James Quote: “Oh,” said Catherine, with some eagerness, “it doesn’t take long to like a person – when once you begin.”
Henry James Quote: “Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”
Henry James Quote: “It was not that I didn’t wait, on this occasion, for more, for I was rooted as deeply as I was shaken. Was there a “secret” at Bly – a mystery of Udolpho or an insane, an unmentionable relative kept in unsuspected confinement?”
Henry James Quote: “I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority – which could include even stupid, sordid headmasters – turn infallibly to the vindictive.”
Henry James Quote: “If you haven’t had your life what have you had?”
Henry James Quote: “Ideas are, in truth, force.”
Henry James Quote: “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.”
Henry James Quote: “This was the sound he cherished when alone in the stillness of his rooms. He sought and guarded the stillness, so that it might prevail there till the inevitable sounds of life, once more, comparatively coarse and harsh, should smother and deaden it – doubtless by the same process with which they would officiously heal the ache in his soul that was somehow one with it.”
Henry James Quote: “His egotism lay like a serpent in a bank of flowers.”
Henry James Quote: “Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.”
Henry James Quote: “The peril for you is that you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You’re not enough in contact with reality – with the toiling, striving, suffering, I may even say sinning, world that surrounds you. You’re too fastidious; you’ve too many graceful illusions.”
Henry James Quote: “From five o’clock to eight is on certain occasions a little eternity; but on such an occasion as this the interval could be only an eternity of pleasure.”
Henry James Quote: “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 Quote: “There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.”
Henry James Quote: “My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.”
Henry James Quote: “It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.”
Henry James Quote: “Was he in love with Gilbert Osmond’s wife, and if so what comfort did he expect to derive from it? If he was in love with Pansy he was not in love with her stepmother, and if he was in love with her stepmother he was not in love with Pansy. Was she to cultivate the advantage she possessed in order to make him commit himself to Pansy, knowing he would do so for her sake and not for the small creature’s own was this the service her husband had asked of her?”
Henry James Quote: “Mrs. Wix gave a sidelong look. She still had room for wonder at what Maisie knew.”
Henry James Quote: “If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’”
Henry James Quote: “Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.”
Henry James Quote: “She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.”
Henry James Quote: “Of course what he most intensely dreams of is being taken out on walks, and the more you are able to indulge him the more will he adore you and the more all the latent beauty of his nature will come out.”
Henry James Quote: “He had gone in late to see her, but evening hadn’t settled and she was presented to him in that long fresh light of waning April days which affects us often with a sadness sharper than the greyest hours of autumn.”
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