Henry James Quotes

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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.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  "Henry James: A Life". Book by Leon Edel. Volume 5: "The Master 1901-1916", 1972.

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• Excellence does not require perfection.

  Henry James

  Perfection, Excellence, Doe

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  Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Judging

  Henry James (2016). “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master”, p.172, University of Chicago Press

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• It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

  Henry James

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

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  Lucky, Right Time, So Lucky

  Henry James (2015). “The Ambassadors”, p.151, Xist Publishing

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• Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

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  Trying, Knows

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• You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

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  Lost, Loses

  Henry James (1963). “The Portrait of a Lady”

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  "The Middle Years" (1893)

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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.

  Henry James

  Waiting, Feels, Ifs

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.280, Delphi Classics

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• Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; 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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  Dream, Strong, Believe

  Henry James (2016). “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

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  Strong, Hard Times, Sorrow

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

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  Experience, Spiders, Tissues

  "The Art of Fiction" (1884)

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• I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

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  Worst, Expected

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• Deep experience is never peaceful.

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  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.6871, Delphi Classics

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• Life is a predicament which precedes death.

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  Life, Judging, Inspire

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  It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

  Henry James

  Art, Consideration, Process

  Letter to H. G. Wells, 10 July 1915

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• It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

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  Aberration, Fool, Born

  Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.3508, Delphi Classics

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• And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.

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  Love, Remember, Hated

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.2844, e-artnow

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• I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

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  Friendship, Integrity, Self Esteem

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• The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

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  Men, World, May

  "Philosophy of Henry James : a digest". Book by J. A. Kellog,

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• When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

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  Alive, Forget, Ignorance Is Bliss

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• Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

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  Mistake, Inspirational Life, Ambassadors

  The Ambassadors bk. 5, ch. 11 (1903)

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• Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

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  Heart, Knowing, Novelists

  Henry James, F. O. Matthiessen, Kenneth B. Murdock (1981). “The Notebooks of Henry James”, p.74, University of Chicago Press

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• There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

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  Two, Understanding, Way

  Henry James (2015). “The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged): Confidence + Roderick Hudson + The Awkward Age + The Europeans + The Golden Bowl + The Other House + The Outcry + The Princess Casamassima + The Reverberator + The Sacred Fount….”, p.1700, e-artnow

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• Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

  Henry James

  Pulse, Details, Stories

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