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 JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
More Henry James Quotes
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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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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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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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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If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
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One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
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I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
HENRY JAMES