Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
More Henry James Quotes
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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 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.
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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I take up my own pen again – the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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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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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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