We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
HENRY JAMESI’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.
More Henry James Quotes
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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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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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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