Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Quote by Henry James

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Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his books: the string the...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

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

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

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second...

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second...

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have,...

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste...

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste...

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what...

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what...

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

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

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to...

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to...

In art economy is always beauty.

In art economy is always beauty.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which...

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other...

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other...