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 JAMESDon’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.
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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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
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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 mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I’m very glad therefore you’ve been a part of it.
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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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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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