Henry James
Quotations
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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.” -Henry James
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“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.” -Henry James
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“The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?” -Henry James
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“I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.” -Henry James
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“Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.” -Henry James
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“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.” -Henry James
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“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.” -Henry James
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“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.” -Henry James
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“Life is a predicament which precedes death.” -Henry James
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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.” -Henry James
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James
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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. – Henry James
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