Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESSummer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
More Henry James Quotes
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To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
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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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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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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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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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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I’m yours for ever–for ever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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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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