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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

Henry James
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Henry James's Popular Quotes

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

- Henry James

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

- Henry James

I have lived too long in foreign parts

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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

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I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

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In art economy is always beauty.

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

- Henry James

We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.

- Henry James
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