“People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid.”
Henry James
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“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
Henry James
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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, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it–this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.”
Henry James
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“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Character
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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
Henry James
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“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance … and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
Henry James
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“I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patriotism
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“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Money
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“She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Mistakes
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“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature
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“Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Animals
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“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“Ideas are, in truth, force.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Ideas
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“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fiction
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“The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fiction
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“The fatal futility of Fact.”
Henry James
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
