We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have.
HENRY JAMESWe 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.
More Henry James Quotes
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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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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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Don’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
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You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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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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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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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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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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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