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 JAMESA tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
More Henry James Quotes
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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.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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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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It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.
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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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Deep experience is never peaceful.
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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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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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To establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.
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