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.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
More Henry James Quotes
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.
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The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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I’ve always expected the worst, and it’s always worse than I expected.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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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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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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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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It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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