...Wherever we go we carry this burden of our personal consciousness and wherever we step we open it out over our heads like a great baleful cotton umbrella to obstruct the prospect and obscure the light of heaven.
Henry JamesHe 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 JamesThere's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Henry JamesStichwörter: marriage
What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?
Henry JamesYou are good for nothing unless you are clever.
Henry JamesThings are always different from what they might be.
Henry JamesAll roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.
Henry JamesStichwörter: forbidden-ground
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 JamesStichwörter: art education theory
What is character but the determination of incident?
Henry Jamessensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity.
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