His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
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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In other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
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I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
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It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games
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I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
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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 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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If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
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If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
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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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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
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