Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are… — Henry James Copy Share Image
We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not to think of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
You think too much.' 'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. — Henry James Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I envy her... I… — Henry James Copy Share Image
do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good… — Henry James Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. — Henry James Copy Share Image
To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too… — Henry James Copy Share Image
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… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“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,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
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