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Henry James Quote: “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.”
Henry James Quote: “Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.”
Henry James Quote: “Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we’ll wake up to find our work done because we’ve lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!”
Henry James Quote: “What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?”
Henry James Quote: “Even iron sometimes melts.”
Henry James Quote: “Life had met him so, half-way, and had turned round so to walk with him, placing a hand in his arm and fondly leaving him to choose the pace.”
Henry James Quote: “All intimacies are based on differences.”
Henry James Quote: “I call it relief, though it was only the relief that a snap brings to a strain or the burst of a thunderstorm to a day of suffocation. It was at least change, and it came with a rush.”
Henry James Quote: “To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.”
Henry James Quote: “The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.”
Henry James Quote: “In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
Henry James Quote: “Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon – the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to have given his best years to an active appreciation of the way they didn’t come; but perhaps – as they would seemingly here be things quite other – this long ache might at last drop to rest.”
Henry James Quote: “I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies – in great towns and great crowds. It’s a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge “squash”, as we elegantly call it – an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.”
Henry James Quote: “It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. The.”
Henry James Quote: “She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair... the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed... And she was dead, dead, dead.”
Henry James Quote: “The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business, in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement.”
Henry James Quote: “Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you’ll condemn them all!”
Henry James Quote: “England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.”
Henry James Quote: “The church was simply the former chapel of the castle, fronting upon its grass-grown court, which, however, was of generous enough width to have given up its quaintest corner to a little graveyard. Here the very headstones themselves seemed to sleep, as they slanted into the grass.”
Henry James Quote: “There are no themes so human as those that reflect the closeness of bliss to bale.”
Henry James Quote: “Writing is not primarily escape, but use.”
Henry James Quote: “If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?”
Henry James Quote: “To live only to suffer – only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged – it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn’t all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn’t it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?”
Henry James Quote: “The image of the “presence,” whatever it was, waiting there for him to go – this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short – he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.”
Henry James Quote: “It was practically the end of everything. I met his kiss and I had to make, while I folded him for a moment in my arms, the most stupendous effort not to cry.”
Henry James Quote: “Now that she was in the secret, now that she knew something that so much concerned her and the eclipse of which had made life resemble an attempt to play whilst with an imperfect pack of cards, the truth of things, their mutual relations, their meaning, and for the most part their horror, rose before her with a kind of architectural vastness.”
Henry James Quote: “Her life should always be in harmony with the most pleasing impression she should produce; she would be what she appeared, and she would appear what she was.”
Henry James Quote: “The misery of Venice stands there for all the world to see; it is part of the spectacle – a thoroughgoing devotee of local colour might consistently say it is part of the pleasure. The.”
Henry James Quote: “It’s beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it.”
Henry James Quote: “I was dazzled by their loveliness.”
Henry James Quote: “But I was to be later on so much more overwhelmed that this mere dawn of alarm was a comparatively human chill.”
Henry James Quote: “I don’t need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.”
Henry James Quote: “But these fancies were not marked enough not not to be thrown off, and it is only in the light, or the gloom, I should rather say, of other and subsequent matters that they now come back to me.”
Henry James Quote: “Love has nothing to do with good reasons.”
Henry James Quote: “Why should a set of people have been put in motion, on such a scale and with such an air of being equipped for a profitable journey, only to break down without an accident, to stretch themselves in the wayside dust without a reason?”
Henry James Quote: “Apologies, Mrs. Touchett intimated, were of no more use to her than bubbles, and she herself never dealt in such articles. One either did the thing or one didn’t, and what one “would” have done belonged to the sphere of the irrelevant, like the idea of a future life or of the origin of things.”
Henry James Quote: “It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness – that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast.”
Henry James Quote: “Living as he now lived was like reading a good book in a poor translation – a meagre entertainment for a young man who felt that he might have been an excellent linguist. He.”
Henry James Quote: “Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong.”
Henry James Quote: “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 Quote: “The chance had come – it was an extraordinary one – on the day she first met Densher; and it was to the girl’s lasting honour that she knew on the spot what she was in the presence of.”
Henry James Quote: “One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.”
Henry James Quote: “May Bartram smiled. “I don’t pretend it exactly shows that I’m not living for you. It’s my intimacy with you that’s in question.” He laughed as he saw what she meant. “Yes, but since, as you say, I’m only, so far as people make out, ordinary, you’re – aren’t you? no more than ordinary either. You help me to pass for a man like another. So if I am, as I understand you, you’re not compromised. Is that it?”
Henry James Quote: “She had a new feeling, the feeling of danger; on which a new remedy rose to meet it, the idea of an inner self or, in other words, of concealment.”
Henry James Quote: “She believed me, I was sure, absolutely; if she hadn’t I don’t know what would have become of me, for I couldn’t have borne the strain alone.”
Henry James Quote: “What saved me, as I now see, was that it turned to something else altogether. It didn’t last as suspense – it was superseded by horrible proofs.”
Henry James Quote: “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.”
Henry James Quote: “It was as if, at moments, we were perpetually coming into sight of subjects before which we must stop short, turning suddenly out of alleys that we perceived to be blind, closing with a little bang that made us look at each other – for, like all bangs, it was something louder than we had intended – the doors we had indiscreetly opened.”
Henry James Quote: “An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.”
Henry James Quote: “What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child’s part of an innocence so saturated with knowledge and so directed to diplomacy.”
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