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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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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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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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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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