It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESThe main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
More Henry James Quotes
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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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Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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