The final futility of fact.
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Novelist Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. New York April 15, 1843 London February 28, 1916Henry James, Jr.
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
Henry James, Jr.
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
Henry James, Jr.
Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
Henry James, Jr.
She had an unequaled gift. . . of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James, Jr.
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