You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
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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Things are always different from what they might be.
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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I 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.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art…what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered.
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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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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
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I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary.
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Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
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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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If you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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