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 think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
More Henry James Quotes
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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