There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
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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If this was love, love had been overrated.
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Things are always different from what they might be.
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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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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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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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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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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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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It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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