Until you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
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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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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He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
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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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Imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
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Life is a predicament which precedes death.
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Excellence does not require perfection.
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She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
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I think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
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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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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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