His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
More Henry James Quotes
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Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.
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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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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 have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
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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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And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
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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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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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Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.
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In art economy is always beauty.
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Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
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Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.
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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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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
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