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 am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
More Henry James Quotes
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It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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All intimacies are based on differences.
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God’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
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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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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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