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’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
More Henry James Quotes
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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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Things are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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