We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
HENRY JAMESI take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
More Henry James Quotes
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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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 don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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