...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 James


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He 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 James


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There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Henry James

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What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?

Henry James


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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

Henry James


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Things are always different from what they might be.

Henry James


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All 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 James

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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

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What is character but the determination of incident?

Henry James


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sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity.

Henry James


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